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THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

AMOEBA.

SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1923.

and the two moet berond it and fuae. Thus the moreel is esplosed within the jelly together The Musings Of A Naturalist, with a little globule of the water, and the jally moves on, carrying The books say that he isita meal in what is, in effect, simple, a lump of primitive jstly, temporary stomach. If the mes! a rostla, aver changing piece be a living microscopic acimal, of naked protoplasm, which is the unfortunate captire may be the simplest form of animal life watched through the transparent now visible upon the earth. The walls of its gelatinous prison. tyro reads these words with low tragedy is enacted then! credulity, and bas bli moment For the prisoner quickly feels of that wonder which we all the acid which its captor accord to the superlative of manufactures for its digestion, anything. But, as he watches and frantically endeavours to and studies this engaging little escape. For many bours the organism, the conviction slowly unequal struggle may go on. dawns upon him that the books But gradually

the captive's a little misleading. Heeffarts lose their power; slowly 22nd Feb. Genoa, Mlias, Liverpool & Glasgow.re 10th Mar. Mille Havre, Liverpool Glasgow learns, in fact, that Amoeba may settles down and dier; and TALTHYBIUS 13th Mar. Genas, Millee, Liverpool & Glasgow.he simple in structure, but tha: when digestion is completed the

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in everything else, in physiology,globulo in which it lies sooner or psychology, lifa histoy, reactions ter comes to the surface of the

and to environment, he is as subile Filly. bursts, there. and as inscrutable as any of the undigested remains are cast aut higher animals, not excepting In other respects the structure the very expert who describes of Amoeba is quite as simple. him in terms which are, to the He has no heart, no blood, no tyro, almost as difficult to under lungs. He breathes by absorbing stand as the animal himselt. the oxygen dissolved in the To me he is the most water around. Nor has he fascinating bit of pally im- ja brain, nor y of the sense aginable; and he is fascinating rgans which we know how to because he is puzzling I found recognise. He began long before him in a pond near Northenden, evolution had begun to locate at the bottom of which he was these in recognisable structures. living in clover among the dead Yet he is every bit as sensitive leaves and "mul, and feeding without them, as are the "higher upan the bacteria which these "animals, sensitive in that basic, engender.

I had some difficulty fundamental manner in which in finding him, in spite of the living matter is sensitive: excellence of my microscope; but and on this sensibility depends I have now secured bim, together that other characteristic of living with a dozen or so of his things, the power to adapt relatives for he can scarcely by themselves to their surroundings. said to have brothers and sisters). Without this faculty some would ins dish with some of his own my that evolution, in living

pond water and a few boiled matter, would have been

erains of wheat. The purpose impassible without another of the wheat grains is to providesential property of protoplasm, 髯 rich infusion "of organic the power to reproduce its own

In the dish here, the Amoebae have doubled their numbers, eren as the bacteria havo quadrupled theirs: and both have done it by the primitive method of dividing into two. It looks so simple. The bocka say that Aniosba is simplest living animal. But

the

From_YOKOHAMA, via YOK-odstuffs in which the bacteris kind

in the water will multiply. The KAICHI, KOBE AND

purpose of the bacteris is to act NAGASAKI.

as food for the Ameeba. In the Food the Amoaba acts as food for all manner of other living things there which, in turn, prer upon one another. That is Nature.

But here, in my dish. the

Nature is hardly so green Amsha is unde: my care. have removed his enemies, that: Not without reason has that he may prosper. And in given her the feminine want him to prosper, so that gender. It is possible, of course, may study him and write learned that if all the best brains were to tomes about him anlgain kudos concentrate for the best part of and be accounted among the great century or 5 upon the study of ones of the land. So that the Amásba we might then begin wheat feeds the bacteria and the really to anderstand something bacteris feed the Amoabi and of this simplest animal

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Goods not cleared by the 19th. Feb, 1923, will be subject to rent. Damaged packages must be Jeft in the Godowns for ex- amination by the Consignees representative and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10am. on Wednesday and Saturday. All claims.. must

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on

the Amoeba indirectly feed- me earth." Yet 81 subtle is this

living

one doubts jelly that That is Man.

I need not feal worried about whether

even so Wellsian 4 motives, however. While I am dream as this would meet with watching him on these cold days,

As I have said it is

be presented within Ten days I may take a chill and by food not without ress that man bas

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that is for ponds of some cornet ever England." ponds in which Flannigan had been convicted the relations of the very Amoeba of assault and the magistrale in You b-binding him over, said: flourishing, and which wil belmust keep the peace towards all for them all the batter habitations His Majesty' subjects for twelve "Then, shouted out by virtue of the gift of my mortal months."

Flannigan. "Heaven help the first matter in solution.

foreigner I meet!"

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OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

K. SHIMA.

Manager. Hongkong 13th. Fo.. 1923.

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CEASELESSLY MOVING, Sobering thoughts, these? Ye they cannot destroy the fascination

this protean THE FILM OF DEATH.

marvel under the lens. He is restless, ceaslessly moving, put- Amber lenses have proved to be Paris-After attending cinema show at which a suicide ting out extensions of his jellymo-tfficient for out-door wear tragedy by drowning was shown in this direction and in that in the tropical sun. All irritat

90 far as we knowling light rays are absorbed and on the screen, & Lyons telegraph cuided,

present. chielly the the result is a restful feeling to boy named Maurice Desconbles at aged 15. weal to the Rhone, chemistry and, physics of the the eye and a relief from the jumped into the river and was water in which he is. Do white glare. Amber lentes Are warm him, he is enlivened: do especially recommended to those 1 cool him, he grows sluggish. A whose work takes them in the little acid turns him away. Any sun, efficers find them indispens- thing like a meal attracts him as able on the range, persons con. infallibly as meat will draw the templating a sea voyage will capers of a puppy. He has no find those glasses almost a nec-

Amber lenses

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drowned.

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